First, David Louis Edelman announced he’ll be giving away five signed copies of his novel Infoquake , and now John Scalzi is also giving away a free signed ARC of his new novel The Android’s Dream (which I’m reading and enjoying at the moment).

And in related news, Mary Robinette Kowal has set up a raffle to help save Apex Digest, which includes some cool prizes. Here are the details, according to Mary:

I’ve set up an old-fashioned raffle with fairly staggering prizes to do some fundraising for Apex Digest. You can buy a ticket to put your name in the hat to win autographed copies of books, art, video and other strange goodies. Tickets are a dollar each. That’s nothing, right? You can afford that.

On Friday, September 29th, we’ll draw names and hand out the prizes.

You might win an autographed book by M.M. Buckner, Geoffrey Girard, Sherrilyn Kenyon, Kevin J. Anderson, Brian Keene, David Louis Edelman, and more. Or how about a copy-edited manuscript of a Ben Bova novel? Would you like a signed first edition hard cover of The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russel? Maybe you’d want to have your story professionally edited? Stop by and see which things you covet.